Here’s why the King of K-Pop BTS member V aka Kim Taehyung is also the King of SNS
BTS member V, real name ‘Kim Taehyung’, continues his powerful domination not only on the charts but also all the social media platforms worldwide.
The singer & songwriter has a huge fan following on all the huge SNS platforms globally, proving his unrivalled popularity overall. So let’s put some light on his achievements on different social media platforms.
In 2020 alone V has the top 3 most liked posts on Instagram for any Korean male artist; he is also the only Korean male artist to reach 6 million likes.
Despite the singer going by two names, real name V and stage name Kim Taehyung, all of his hashtags gathered impressive engagement as he is the only artist in the world to have 3 hashtags over 30 million posts on the platform.
BTS members don’t have any individual accounts on Instagram but the following of their fan accounts following is pretty impressive, and V happens to be the one with the most followed fan account for an artist on the platform (moreover, 3 of his fan accounts has surpassed 6 million followers).
V’s surprise selca captioned "hi army" has been the talk of the town as it became the most liked post on Twitter for an Asian artist.
Also, he is the fastest Asian artist to achieve 3 million likes milestone (in just 8 days).
In addition, V’s posts occupied 6 of the top 30 most liked tweets of all time, which is the most for any Artist.
V’s historic birthday hashtag is now the most tweeted birthday hashtag for an artist with 5 million tweets.
According to the Facebook, which was declared the biggest social platform with highest number of active users in 2020, BTS (13.1M) and BTS’V (14.2) are the most mentioned group and individual celebrity respectively (including both Korean and English).
V also has the most viewed and liked fancam on the Facebook.
His Facebook fan pages gathered huge number of followers (3 of them achieved more than 1.7 million followers).
TIKTOK
V’s hashtags on Tiktok gathered billions of views; he is the only person in the world to 2 hashtags with over 17 billion views on Tiktok.
VLIVE
VLive, sometimes referred to as V-App, is a South Korean live video streaming service. V has the most viewed video on the platform with more than half billion views.
V also has the most watched Vlive in real-time with more than 12 million real-time viewers.
YOUTUBE
Idol of Idols V has broken multiple records on YouTube with his fancams.
^ Most watched and most liked fancam of all time on YouTube with over 130 million views.
V’s ‘Boy Will Luv’ M2 fancam not only received an explosive reaction from the viewers worldwide, also achieved a legendary Daesang award.
^ Most watched fancam of 2020 gathering more than 21 million views.
^ Highest number of fancams in ‘the top 100 most viewed list’.
^ Highest number fancams surpassing 5 million views.
^ Hundreds of fancams over 1 million views on the platform.
‘Intro Singularity’ performed by V remains the most watched K-pop Intro on the platform.
No wonder why V is also labeled as “The King of YouTube”.
TWIPPLE
V ranked #5 on Twipple (Twitter of Japan which is one of the most popular SNS platforms in Japan, moreover, it is a very important popularity scale for the celebrities in the country) Japan Yearly Charts, making him the highest among foreign artists and the highest among all soloists overall, surpassing even Japanese soloists on the list in 2020.
CHINESE PLATFORMS
- Weibo 》
Weibo is China’s biggest SNS platform. V is the only BTS member to enter the top 100 of the ‘Super Topic’ list on Weibo, which is an indicator of a star’s overall fan power, surpassing even the group as a whole.
- Bilibili 》
V is the 4th most subscribed foreign individual artist on Bilibili, commonly known as the “YouTube of China”, the biggest and most used video platform in the country, and is also most subscribed among the BTS members.
- Baidu, WeChat 》
V also dominates (biggest search platform in China) and WeChat (biggest chatting site).
VK - VKontakte
V is the highest ranked Korean solo Artist in Russia according to DeerZone ranking of Vkontakte (VK), Russia’s largest SNS platform; he ranked 4th, following the groups~BTS, EXO and Black Pink respectively.
After this general view on BTS member V’s influence on social media platforms, there is no doubt that he has a huge fan following and wide reach of audience. He is undoubtedly the undisputed King of SNS.
